British operas at Warsaw’s Beethoven Festival18.03.2016 17:47Friday’s programme of the Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw includes two rarely performed one-act operas by English composers: “Riders to the Sea” by Ralph Vaughan Williams and “At the Boar’s Head” by Gustav Holst.

Both are being presented in a concert version by British and Polish singers, with the Sinfonietta of the Warsaw Chamber Orchestra and the Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Female Choir conducted by Łukasz Borowicz.

Performances of concert versions of lesser known operas are a long-standing tradition of the Beethoven Easter Festival, now in its 20th year. Previous productions include Spohr’s “Der Berggeist” and Carl Maria von Weber’s “Euryanthe”.

The Beethoven Festival, now half way through, concludes on Good Friday with the performance at Warsaw’s National Philharmonic of Krzysztof Penderecki’s “St Luke Passion”, which was written for the 700th anniversary of Munster Cathedral and premiered there in March 1966- See more at: www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/245257,British-operas-at-Warsaw%E2%80%99s-Beethoven-Festival#sthash.FPeQwcac.dpuf